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Jury convicts 5 of 7 defendents for $250 million diversion of Covids funds intended for child feeding program

Fri, 2024-06-07 19:07 — mike kraft

5 of 7 defendants convicted of misusing Covid relief money meant to feed children The federal fraud trial was the first in a $250 million scheme that prosecutors said was the largest of its kind. NBC News

A Minnesota jury on Friday found five of seven defendants guilty of most of the crimes they faced related to a scheme in which they misused millions of dollars meant to feed children during the pandemic.

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Study on associations between obesity, probable long COVID, and sleep problems

Fri, 2024-06-07 09:17 — mike kraft

Associations between obesity, a composite risk score for probable long COVID, and sleep problems in SARS-CoV-2 vaccinated individuals International Journal of Obesity - Associations between obesity, a composite risk score for probable long COVID, and sleep problems in SARS-CoV-2 vaccinated individuals Nature

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Some U.S. community health centers still affected 3 months later by UnitedHealth hack

Wed, 2024-06-05 17:44 — mike kraft

Community health centers still bogged down by red tape after UnitedHealth hack More than three months after a cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group's technology unit, some community health centers, which serve 30 million low-income and uninsured patients, are still wading through red tape to receive back payments and struggling with operations issues. Amina Niasse

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Dr. Fauci, at contentious House hearing, cites need for better communication between federal and local heath authorities

Mon, 2024-06-03 19:00 — mike kraft

Takeaways from Fauci’s testimony at contentious House hearing on Covid-19 pandemic | CNN Politics Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testified on Monday at a House subcommittee hearing about the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the origins of the virus. Jen Christensen, Elise Hammond, Antoinette Radford, Maureen Chowdhury CNN

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Misinformation issue: Truthful yet misleading Facebook posts drove COVID vaccine reluctance much more than outright lies

Mon, 2024-06-03 10:58 — mike kraft

Study: Truthful yet misleading Facebook posts drove COVID vaccine reluctance much more than outright lies did Today in Science, a study shows that unflagged, factual but misleading Facebook posts reduced the intent to receive the COVID-19 vaccine 46 times more than did false posts flagged by fact-checkers as misinformation, which the authors say points to the need to consider the reach and impact of content rather than just its veracity. CIDRAP

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Pedople with disabilities still struggle as public COVID precautions fade away

Mon, 2024-06-03 09:43 — mike kraft

As COVID precautions vanish, people with disabilities struggle with safety and isolation The pace of COVID fatalities in the U.S. has slowed significantly, with the nation’s death toll standing at more than 1 million people. With precautions like mandatory masking no longer in place, it can seem as if worries about the virus are gone as well. But for many people with disabilities, the threat is still very real. We hear from people in the disability community about their concerns. Andrew Corkery PBS NewsHour

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U.S arrests Chinese man whose free computer programs enabled $6 Billion theft from COVID relief funds

Thu, 2024-05-30 11:23 — mike kraft

A man who allegedly stole $6 billion in COVID relief was arrested The DOJ says YunHe Wang offered free VPN programs that infected millions of computers Quartz

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The DOJ’s statement claims that 911 S5 customers allegedly targeted certain COVID-19 relief programs. It says that 560,000 fraudulent unemployment insurance claims originated from compromised IP addresses, resulting in a loss exceeding $5.9 billion for the United States.

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Appeals Court rules Mayo Clinic must face religious bias claims over COVID vaccine policy

Tue, 2024-05-28 11:21 — mike kraft

Mayo Clinic must face religious bias claims over COVID vaccine policy, court rules A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit accusing the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota of illegally firing five employees who refused on religious grounds to receive the COVID-19 vaccine or be regularly tested for the virus. Daniel Wiessner Reuters

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COVID-19 pandemic reversed decade of gains in life expectancy--WHO

Tue, 2024-05-28 09:39 — mike kraft

WHO: COVID-19 pandemic reversed decade of life expectancy gains The World Health Organization (WHO) published a new report suggesting the COVID-19 pandemic undid a decade of life expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy gains (HALE), with global expectancy levels now matching those last seen in 2012. CIDRAP

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"Not only has the pandemic set back healthy longevity worldwide by years, it also reversed the previous trends of shifting disease burden to noncommunicable diseases," the report said.

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American Heart Association warns that myths incorrectly connecting COVID vaccine to heart defects may be spreading

Fri, 2024-05-24 09:52 — mike kraft

Myths incorrectly connecting COVID vaccine to heart defects may be spreading

The American Heart Association warns that false information about COVID vaccination and heart defects attributed to the Association may be spreading. The misinformation is inaccurately and incorrectly connected to a recent scientific paper on cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome.

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